1998-1999 - The University of Scranton

WOMEN’S STUDIES CONCENTRATION
DR. MEAGHER, Director; Faculty: Jody DeRitter, Marian Farrell, Joyce Hanks, Jean Harris,
Eileen Hewitt, Jane Kopas, Linda Ledford-Miller, Virginia Picchietti, Susan Poulson, Stephen
Whittaker, Susan Williams-Quinlan, Joan Robbins, Jan Kelly, Marjorie Maddox.
The Women’s Studies concentration consists of both interdisciplinary and single-discipline
courses which examine women’s experiences and the ways gender-related issues affect human
lives and cultures. Faculty and students analyze the ways gender roles and images, and
assumptions about gender, are reflected in art, business, literature, law, philosophy, public policy,
religion, language, history, the sciences, and their own lives. At the same time many
Women’s Studies courses will address issues of race, class, ethnicity, and age which intersect
with gender-related issues.
Women’s Studies seeks to promote critical thinking, intellectual growth, and a self-awareness
useful to all students. It is an attractive academic supplement to the programs of students
planning careers in government, law, business, human service, ministry, and teaching — to
name but a few.
Courses for the Women’s Studies Concentration are drawn from all the colleges at the
University and are open to students in all majors. (To enroll, students must see the Director of
Women’s Studies.) The concentration consists of six courses including the required core
course, Phil. 218, Feminism: Theory and Practice. The remaining five courses are chosen
across several departments by the student from cross-listed courses approved by the Women’s
Studies Committee. Many of the cross-listed women’s studies courses also fulfill major, minor,
cognate and/or general education requirements.
Students may seek permission from the Women’s Studies Committee to take no more than
one reader for women’s studies credit, subject to the usual rules governing readers. Students
may also petition to substitute no more than one course not cross-listed with women’s studies,
if the course has sufficient women’s studies content and the student is able to do a significant
project/assignment on a women’s studies topic.
Women’s Studies courses (a) focus on women’s experiences in history, society, and culture,
and examine their reactions to such experiences, (b) examine institutional structures/
modes of authority/analyses of power, especially considering their implications for women,
and (c) incorporate one or more feminist analyses/scholarly works (recognizing that there are
multiple, and even conflicting, feminist perspectives).
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COMM 229: Gender and Communication
ENGL 225: Writing Women
ENGL 227: Frankenstein’s Forebears
ENGL 317: Race in Anglo-American Culture,
600-2860
*FREN430: French Women Writers
HIST 238: History of American Women I
HIST 239: History of American Women II
ITAL 207: Italian Women’s Writing
in Translation
H/PS 216: Gender and the Work Force
LIT207: Literature of American Minorities
MGT 472: Women in Management
*taught in the original language.
WOMEN’S STUDIES COURSES
NURS111: Women’s Health
PHIL218: Feminism: Theory and Practice
PHIL231: Philosophy of Women
PHIL326: Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory
PS 227: Women, Politics, and Policy
PSYCH 237: Psychology of Women
*SPAN430: Hispanic Women Writers
T/RS 315: Women in Christianity
T/RS 319: Women’s Spiritual/Autobiographical
Writings
THTR 372: Contemporary Women Playwrights
WOMN 380-81 Women’s Studies Internship
WOMN 429: Special Topics
Some of the listed courses have prerequisites; please consult departmental descriptions.
WOMN 380-81Women’s Studies Internship
(pre-requisites PHIL 218 or permission of Women’s Studies Executive Committee) Designed to broaden
the educational experience of students by providing practical experience for them in various non-profit and
other organizations that deal primarily with women’s issues or women clients. Students will ordinarily be
expected to write a reflection paper. Supervision by faculty member and agency supervisor.